 But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only...  Commentaries Upon International Law - Page 255by Sir Robert Phillimore - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited ' by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in ' the law of nations, that forbids...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale.' We will not affirm that this is good law ; but, at any rate, it is law which cannot be impugned by... | |
 | Felix Hargrave Hamel - Neutrality - 1863 - 136 pages
...indorses, the decision of Justice Story in the supreme court of the United States, that "there is nothing in " our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...our " citizens from sending armed vessels as well as muni" tions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commer" cial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
 | Frederick Waymouth Gibbs - History - 1863 - 136 pages
...prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited " by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws " or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from send" ing armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign " ports for sale. It is a commercial... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1864 - 736 pages
...as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." This is a case illustrating the law and practice of the United States while neutral in the war between... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 594 pages
...as good prize, for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1864 - 730 pages
...as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." This is a case illustrating the law and practice of the United States while neutral in the war between... | |
 | 1864 - 472 pages
...the law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the ¿Santiinma Trinidad : — " There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.".. .Equally clear is it, nevertheless, that the transaction bears the impress of a hostile enterprise.... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1864 - 580 pages
...law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the Santitsima Trinidad : — " There is nothing iu our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our...prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged iu it to the penalty of confiscation." Equally clear is it, nevertheless, that the transaction bears... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pages
...in our laws or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Apart from any municipal regulation, that rule, as regards international duty, is perfectly clear.... | |
 | Scotland - 1864 - 806 pages
...has applied it specifically to the sale of armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, 'in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports, p. 318.) Ships of war... | |
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